Gaming Can somebody help me partition my HDD?

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I got a seagate HDD the other day, and when I tried to format it to fat32 the usual way, it would only format to NTFS. I tried using Wii Backup Manager, and it SAYS that it changed, but it didn't. Any suggestions?
 

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You can try downloading a partition manager like EASEUS partition manager and format it using that and you can also use it to partition the drive. For the program google it i don't have a link for it.
 

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open cmd (comand prompt) as administrator: right click on cmd.exe and select run as administrator

type the following

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convert G: /FS:FAT32

where "G" is the drive letter of your seagate HDD (open my computer to find out)
 

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You can't format large drives to fat32 on Windows XP and above. You could use a number of different 3rd party tools. Try fat32format: hxxp://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/FAT32format.shtml

Or if you're using linux just type this into the terminal while you have root access:

mkfs -t vfat -I /dev/sda1

Assuming that sda is the drive you want to format.
 

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Hey, I got it. WOOT! I just had to run it a couple times.Now then. Is there a need for a NTFS partition for it to function properly, or can I have the whole thing as fat32?
 

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drakorex said:
Hey, I got it. WOOT! I just had to run it a couple times.Now then. Is there a need for a NTFS partition for it to function properly, or can I have the whole thing as fat32?

no it is not a nnessesity to have another ntfs partition on that drive, be warned that files over 4gb will not copy over
 

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